At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead. There is no trace of their young son, Alex Manez, or of the asteroid itself.

On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone!

While studying the alien marker, it begins to react. Four hours later, the missing asteroid appears in a Plutonian orbit, along with young Alex Manez, who has developed some alarming side-effects from his exposure to the kinetic element they call Kinemet.

From the depths of a criminal empire based on Luna, an expatriate seizes the opportunity to wrest control of outer space, and takes swift action.

The secret to faster-than-light speed is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar space begins!

Music of the Spheres

The technology for interstellar flight exists through the power of Kinemet, but the key to unlocking its code lies in a thousand-year-old scroll left on Earth by an alien species.

When the ancient manual is stolen before a full translation is completed, Alex, Michael and Justine scramble to recover it.

Along the way, they stumble on an interplanetary conspiracy and uncover a secret that shatters their view of life and shakes the very foundations of our existence.

Worlds Away

For a thousand years the Kulsat Armada has ravaged the galaxy searching for the lost legacy of an extinct race of technologically advanced beings. They destroy anyone who gets in their way.

Now they have turned their attention to Earth and are gathering their forces for an invasion.

Justine, Michael and Alex each hold a key to stopping the enemy, but they are worlds away from each other, and they are running out of time...

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At the end of the 21st century, a catastrophic accident in the asteroid belt has left two surveyors dead. There is no trace of their young son, Alex Manez, or of the asteroid itself.

On the outer edge of the solar system, the first manned mission to Pluto, led by the youngest female astronaut in NASA history, has led to an historic discovery: there is a marker left there by an alien race for humankind to find. We are not alone!

While studying the alien marker, it begins to react. Four hours later, the missing asteroid appears in a Plutonian orbit, along with young Alex Manez, who has developed some alarming side-effects from his exposure to the kinetic element they call Kinemet.

From the depths of a criminal empire based on Luna, an expatriate seizes the opportunity to wrest control of outer space, and takes swift action.

The secret to faster-than-light speed is up for grabs, and the race for interstellar space begins!

Music of the Spheres

The technology for interstellar flight exists through the power of Kinemet, but the key to unlocking its code lies in a thousand-year-old scroll left on Earth by an alien species.

When the ancient manual is stolen before a full translation is completed, Alex, Michael and Justine scramble to recover it.

Along the way, they stumble on an interplanetary conspiracy and uncover a secret that shatters their view of life and shakes the very foundations of our existence.

Worlds Away

For a thousand years the Kulsat Armada has ravaged the galaxy searching for the lost legacy of an extinct race of technologically advanced beings. They destroy anyone who gets in their way.

Now they have turned their attention to Earth and are gathering their forces for an invasion.

Justine, Michael and Alex each hold a key to stopping the enemy, but they are worlds away from each other, and they are running out of time...

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1.0 out of 5 starsCOLLECTION: Too Terrible To Read

4 June 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I have a collection I call "Too Terrible To Read." This "trilogy" is in it. I'm going to be blunt because V. Daniels illustrates a trend in new fiction, at least speculative fiction, on Amazon that disturbs me and should disturb every reader. Amazon, in some important ways, is complicit, so listen up, Amazon.

When I was a kid, Sci Fi writers had a long list of periodicals with editors who paid small amounts for promising fiction. Every month, most of them carried part of a serialized novel or novella. We knew because they told us we were getting only part of it. We accepted the custom and impatiently waited for the mailman to bring next month's installment. Most of those pulp monthlies have long since disappeared. Now we have "self-publishing" or more aptly, vanity publishing. It's cheap, it can be done without a staff of any kind. Submissions don't run the risk of an editor/publisher's rejection. Have a friend read your file and compliment you on your wonderful story - are they going to be honest? Have a friend or your long suffering spouse look the file over for obvious typos, run it through the spell checker, and upload it. I don't write for a living, so I don't know the details (look at my review of "Eon" for another problem with Amazon editions).

A fortunate writer will come up with a good tale which can survive a bad telling of it. The rest will make a few bucks, or not, and be able to say, "I published a book once."

Not having a professional editor criticize your work, a good one who is intrigued with your story, actually help put it into respectable shape, leaves the author who has only a passing acquaintance with style, syntax, punctuation, grammar, on his own, unable to see his errors. Then there are lapses in logic, the bane of the eager author who tries hard, as in this case, to be technical without the background to do it. Plausibility suffers. I've got news for wannabes: the best sci-fi writers had the background for it or were willing to go out to find help when their own knowledge wasn't up to the task their imaginations set for them. It's hard, demanding, exacting work, this writing business. If you're not willing to do that hard work, you're perpetrating a con.

If there's no science to support an idea, then the pseudo science the author makes up to tell his tale, has to have an internal logic. Screw that up and the whole project becomes ludicrous.

I'll admit that I slogged through the first part of the "Interstellar Age" just so I could write this review. It's not fair to anyone to be unfamiliar with your subject. I also confess that I couldn't bring myself to read the rest of it, although I did 'thumb" through parts two and three, finding even more of the errors Daniels made in the first part.

Mr. Daniels, if you are going to try to support your story with science, get it right. For example, you run through the calculations needed to derive the specific gravity of a body in space. M^3 is not a unit of area. (Just one example among dozens.)

Don't tell me in this paragraph that your character is confident he's figured something out, only to tell me in the next one, he's not sure.

And, unless there's a very good reason (there can be) to tell me the same thing twice, tell me once - never three times. Assume I'm as intelligent as you are, have a memory, or can go back to look if I forget.

This author's career has been, how shall I say it, eclectic to a fault. He's added publishing a book to his wide ranging, if shallow, resume. He should move on or go back to school, learn how to write, and do a lot of serious reading to learn how the craft should be organized before he tries again.

As for Amazon: I suspect they don't want to take on the responsibilities of publisher. But, Amazon, you are that. You have your own imprint - Kindle Editions. You must, to protect your customers, at least lay down minimum standards of spelling, and typo free files. To be fair to us, who have to buy the books sight unseen (samples are gamed, and you know it) you should develop a list of editors to whom you can refer the writers who want to push their books on Amazon. Not only are you letting us down, you're contributing to the decay of reading (and writing) skills among those whose schools already have left them only semi-illiterate. We learn by example. It the examples we're given are wanting, even our own ability to discriminate between the good and bad erodes.

It should be your policy to be up front about whether a "book," in reality, an installment, is going to be part of a larger work - a serial. The grand game on Amazon is serialization to be capped by "omnibus editions." Give us credit for what we've already bought if we choose to buy the final product. And as a matter of ethics, if a manuscript is corrected or re-edited, those who bought early in good faith (assumed) should be given the "improved" manuscript every time.

2.0 out of 5 starsInteresting concepts.. but needs storytelling development.

7 May 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

meh.. started pretty strong.. but the writing style is a bit clunky, seems kind of 'forced' and literal. Concepts were interesting, but plots were way too predictable - characters kept doing the same stupid things over and over. person a did this, then they did this, then they did this, then they did this.. then something blew up, then they did this, then they did this.. style just kinda got old after a while. I didn't feel like I was reading a STORY, maybe more like I was listening to a narrator describe a bunch of events.

still, I did real all three books all the way through.. although I did start skimming and skipped a bunch of pages when the author got too philosophical.

I got the complete trilogy so I was able to follow the story to the end. For the most part I really liked the story. There were a few plot twists that could have been dropped or expanded to enhance the story, but they didn't get in the way of it so they were acceptable distractions.

I enjoyed the storyline & most of the characters. The author kinda gets bogged down in places with excessive details, but I'm getting used to that with the volume of "cheep" e-books I've been buying lately. STILL it was a good read all in all!

From the first page of the first book up to the very last sentence of the series the story kept me engaged and wanting more. It was very hard to put down at the end of the day to get SOME sleep. Great character development. Good hard science. Heroes that keep going. Villains that don't seem to go away. Everything I want in a space opera.

SPOILER: my one and only problem with the story was the aging of the Kulsat. It was far too short a live span, IMHO, to gain that level of a scientific culture. Fifteen to twenty would have been more believable.